President Obama wants to earmark a billion dollars to aid Central America—specifically, the isthmus’s “northern triangle” of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.The U.S. military’s Miami-based Southern Command has labeled the northern triangle the “deadliest zone

The last time a Roman Catholic priest got involved in Haitian politics, things did not turn out so well.That was the tragic saga of Haiti’s former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the erratic cleric who came to power twice, in 1991 and 2001, only to be ousted by coups and protests. The world

A humanitarian crisis is looming in the Dominican Republic where thousands face statelessness and deportation because of the impending enforcement of a 2013 court decision to revoke the citizenship for many Dominican-born descendants of undocumented migrants.

Since its launch in 1994 the Summit of the Americas had become best known for two very dismal features.

Things could not be worse in Venezuela. No, actually, they could be—and probably will be.Despite its prodigious oil wealth, Venezuela is heading over a financial cliff, and it is heading there faster thanks to the plunging price of crude oil. The socialist revolution founded by the late Hugo C

On the weekend after President Obama’s historic announcement on Dec. 17 that he wanted to re-establish diplomatic ties with communist Cuba, I visited a park in Miami’s Little Havana section.Cuban exiles were holding a protest against normalizing relations with Havana, which were severed

El Salvador’s pro-life culture made it easy to codify church teaching into law.

This year has seen a remarkable spike in the number of Cubans arriving in South Florida.

Floridians increasingly see gay marriage as a weightier question of civil rights.

Venezuela is mired in a deadly and crippling standoff. Since early February, anti-government protests, largely student-led, have turned many of the oil-rich nation’s cities into scenes of street barricades and tear gas. More than 40 people have been killed so far.This is the crisis Hugo Cháve